Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Treating cat allergy with monoclonal IgG antibodies that bind allergen and prevent IgE engagement

  • J. M. Orengo,
  • A. R. Radin,
  • V. Kamat,
  • A. Badithe,
  • L. H. Ben,
  • B. L. Bennett,
  • S. Zhong,
  • D. Birchard,
  • A. Limnander,
  • A. Rafique,
  • J. Bautista,
  • A. Kostic,
  • D. Newell,
  • X. Duan,
  • M. C. Franklin,
  • W. Olson,
  • T. Huang,
  • N. A. Gandhi,
  • L. Lipsich,
  • N. Stahl,
  • N. J. Papadopoulos,
  • A. J. Murphy,
  • G. D. Yancopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03636-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Allergen-specific immunotherapy is used to treat patients affected by acute immunoglobulin E (IgE) responses, but the function mechanism is unclear. Here the authors show that the administration of two cat allergen-specific IgGs reduces allergic responses in mouse models and helps ameliorate clinical symptoms in a phase 1b clinical trial.